As so called "world-music" invaded the western hemisphere two decades ago, the concept of Afro-Futuristic-Jazz pioneered in the sixties and seventies gradually vanished…This re-issue release Spirits into Sounds explores this very dimension of African Jazz in a unique blend of "controlled freedom" music where the lines blur between the collective improvisations, tight Afrobeat jams with M’base-sounding-like horn lines, strong percussive work, psychedelic synthesizers, rock guitars…These new directions in Afro music called Afrolectric sound recall these familiar "sounds" while pointing new directions towards the future...

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